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Before you get too excited about this, I should warn you that it's US-only—at least for the moment.

Google has responded to the coming threat of Apple Music with a new streaming product of their own. The difference? Where Apple's 24-hour, DJ-curated radio station will be but a single component of their $9.99 USD/month offering, Google is providing a selection of themed Internet radio stations for free (with ads) today.
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Ah yes, mobile payment systems in Canada... One of those not-so-subtle reminders that Canadians are living in a digital backwater, controlled by an oligopoly whose only interest is serving themselves.

Witness this latest development, just published in The Globe and Mail, detailing how Bell and TELUS have turned their backs on the tap-and-pay system from Apple and have thrown their support behind Rogers' suretap instead.

CIBC, currently the only bank that supports suretap, is playing this low-key, saying it only wants to give wireless users in this country another option when it comes to mobile payments. But a spokes-shill from suretap is singing a different tune:

The service has already been lit up at Bay, St. George and Yonge/Bloor, with the entire downtown loop set to come online within the month. You'll get a signal on subway platforms, though, because service in the underground tunnels is, at present, cost-prohibitive and too useful for riders.

It was a major PR victory for WIND; its CEO was not only crowing about the carrier's one-year exclusive, but had the chutzpah to say that the Big Three were welcome to negotiate a TTC roaming deal during that exclusive. But I'm going to call this thing out for what it is—a net neutrality disaster, or whatever you'd call the wireless equivalent.

What would the reaction have been were it Bell, Rogers or TELUS who announced exclusive dibs on Toronto subway platforms?
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There are over a thousand Android enthusiasts out there patiently waiting for their Saygus V², and I sincerely hope that you're not one of them. This would-be flagship-killer is shaping up to be a major scam.

Ongoing manufacturing delays are bad enough, but now Saygus has apparently launched an Indiegogo campaign for a "refreshed" V² dubbed the V SQUARED—a campaign that, at launch, was already funded to the tune of almost a million bucks.

Saygus says it was an error, one that conveniently added the tally from the original pre-orders to their Indiegogo account. Android Police calls the situation "mega-suspicious", and I'm inclined to agree.
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At the start of rush hour this past Monday morning Toronto's Transit System failed, and failed hard. Just after 5:30 am the radio communications system went silent, and as a result service on all four subway lines was halted until after 7 am. Shuttle buses could not be brought in as they too rely on radio communications, so thousands of commuters were pretty much stranded.

Enter UBER, who made some headlines of their own for seemingly taking advantage of the situation with surge pricing. UBER says that once they learned of the TTC shutdown they capped their fares at 3x the normal rate; the screen grab you're looking at (via Twitter) says otherwise.

Anyway, there is actually a reasonable explanation for UBER's exponentially raised rates, which I didn't fully understand until I read a statement they released later that day:
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